The Water Project - Benefits for Real People

These water projects will improve the quality of life for families. They will reduce the daily burden of water collection that falls on women and children. The incidence of water related disease will decline. Local farmers will be able to increase crop production and nutrition levels will improve. They will also be able to receive water maintenance and conservation skills training to reduce soil erosion and depletion.

One of the people who will benefit from this project is Muthoki Mungooti, a widow with 6 children. She has had no hope for harvest in the past four seasons because of unreliable rainfall and no alternate access to water.

In order to stave off starvation, she and her children consumed the grain she had stored for planting and sold off all their livestock at whatever prices she could get. Now, Muthoki and her sons work in neighboring farms or other casual jobs in order to survive. They are living on food borrowed from neighbors and are susceptible to disease due to poor living conditions. The family desperately needs to gain access to water to improve their situation.